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Comment Re:Acquire then discontinue (Score 1) 29

This is the PC and Printer business, the entire rest of the software directly related to PC and Printers was already divested into HPE (or was already spun into Agilent), even HPE kicked out a bunch of software over to Micro Focus and OpenText (who promptly bought Micro Focus.)

I'm sure they have tried to sell it and nobody was buying. They are also struggling to make money despite being the #2 PC vendor (globally.)

Unless you are an extremely profitable company that has reason to raise margin, there's NO reason for a company to shutdown something that's making money. That means ... it's not making money.

Comment Re: I see cargo installers everywhere lately (Score 1) 173

I think maybe you either only work in a certain POV of the world of software development or just totally have no clue.

C++ has not at all died and has been increasing in enterprise business usage, mostly at the loss of Java and C# code. Also it's been growing in popularity in embedded usage.

Comment Re:Rust is a specialist language (Score 1) 173

It definitely seems like it was up and coming to replace all systems programming work and then just ... stalled out.

Rust Community has unfortunately made many, many people HATE them with a passion.

Who knows what the future will hold, but definitely seems like it might have stalled out.

It's also really hard to teach people who aren't as good at programming to use Rust well.

Comment Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines (Score 3, Interesting) 79

Probably just the OpenAI bubble is going to pop. Same with the Tesla bubble popping. Anthropic doesn't seem likely to pop, but could as they are too big to buy now. Google isn't going to pop, Microsoft isn't going to pop - in both cases they have strong profits. Amazon AWS has strong profits, the Chinese companies have strong profits and all the Gen AI services companies would just fire the divisions and move on.

The market as a whole is not in a bubble and that's pretty obviously if you look at actual market bubble stats.

Comment Re:Rebuild in what language? (Score 1) 41

This is just a CMS frontend that runs on TOP of Astro which necessitates writing it in TypeScript.

Now I CAN write it all in Rust, compile Rust to WASM and then run WASM in TypeScript on top of Astro (or running my own Astro server, I can run the WASM direct.)

It's just one of those days isn't it?

I'm having Claude rewrite it into Rust right now.

Comment Re:Nobody (Score 2) 91

*Looks over nervously at 2 max configuration Mac Studios*

The market for expansion cards has definitely slipped.

(And this doesn't compare to running the full model on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 machine, but it is what it is.)

Comment Re:Will believe it when it happens (Score 1) 166

It's got all kinds of bad.

The core people who built the actual OS don't work on Windows now at all, they are either Research or they work on Azure. During the Panos Panay era, everyone left in Core stopped working on Windows and "Windows" took over everything. The people who were left all have left Microsoft.

So you have a lot of people who have little experience with actual OS development and lots of "application" developers working on their own little bits but ultimately they are not OS guys.

So they dug a gigantic hole and there's nobody to dig them out of it. I have no clue how they are going to fix that. (And most of the Azure people are simply long out of actually doing actual development and mostly only care about their "own" stuff.)

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